Recent content by willg

If that is the correct behavoir from the game then it would seem counter to much of the advice I have seen and also illogical. Surely a higher science rate should have some effect on the rate of discoveries even under despotism. Is it really the case that one town of one person at 10% science...

Yes I do explore and get advances that way. The other civ had made no contacts with other civs (as far as I could tell), so I still don't understand why my discoveries were coming so slowly. Is it right that the science rate has no affect under despotism until you build libraries?

I have CivIII 1.17f (mac version) and am having trouble with science. Whatever level of spending I assign to science the rate of research is the same as if I assigned just 1 unit of commerce to it until I build libraries (this is under despotism), ie. a Science rate of 10% is the same as the...